Our Mission Statement
As a Public Benefit Corporation created by the New York State Legislature, the Wayne County Water & Sewer Authority has as its purpose to reliably provide the highest quality water and the most efficient wastewater services for the benefit of the people of the Authority’s service area. The Authority’s goal is to consistently provide these services at a reasonable and competitive cost while promoting an atmosphere of outstanding customer service, planning for future improvements and protecting resources and the environment.

Beginning in the early 1970’s, Wayne County began exploring the possibility of
creating a centralized water system that would provide for its long-term needs and supplement the ability of
individual town and village systems to effectively and reliably deliver water. Various studies were conducted with no results.

In 1985 the prior studies were reevaluated and projections were made on the long-term demand for
water in the County. The new study also recommended the development of a Wayne County Water Authority to
coordinate and manage the consolidation of supply and transmission systems and plan future
improvements that would improve the water service in the County. The Wayne County Water Authority was
created by special state legislation in 1987. The legislation was later amended to provide for a “sewer“
designation for the Authority. This amendment brought about the Wayne County Water and Sewer Authority.

The Authority currently operates and maintains water systems which supply water within the Towns of Macedon,
Walworth, Palmyra, Marion, Arcadia, Lyons, Butler, Huron, Sodus and Wolcott. The Authority also
supplies water on a wholesale basis to the Villages of Macedon and Lyons and the Cayuga County Water and
Sewer Authority. The facilities in the water system are either owned by the Authority or leased from other
municipalities or water districts. The Authority operates, receives all water revenues from, maintains and
pays the operation and maintenance expenses of any such leased facilities. Municipalities and water districts which own any part
of the water system retain full responsibility for paying the capital debt service for such facilities.

The average yearly volume of water
purchased by the Authority for all
sections of its service area is
nearly one billion gallons. The
Authority is responsible for the
operation and maintenance of over
400 miles of transmission and
distribution main, 7 water storage
tanks and 7 pumping stations within
the service area. The current
population of the service area is
approximately 30,000. The Authority
water systems provide retail service
to approximately 9800 metered
accounts. In 2014, the Authority
received approximately 60% of its
water revenues from residential
accounts, 20% from industrial and
commercial accounts and 20% from
wholesale accounts.

During its early years of operation,
the Authority was primarily a “Water
Authority” with wastewater
collection, treatment and disposal
representing only about 1.5% of
operating revenues. Now, the
Authority operates a 500,000 GPD
Regional Wastewater Treatment
Facility and a related collection
system that includes approximately
9,000 linear feet of gravity sewer,
20,000 feet of force main and three
pump stations. This regional
treatment facility replaced a 30,000
GPD treatment facility in September,
2006. This system currently
collects and treats approximately
240,000 GPD of wastewater, with the
majority of the flows coming from
the Village of Wolcott,
Cayuga County Sewer District #2, the Village of Red Creek and
Red Creek Central Schools. The New
York State Department of Corrections
contributed to the cost of building
the regional facility, which
replaced their aging and costly
Correctional Facility treatment
plant. The regional facility is
designed to accept flows not only from
the Villages of Wolcott, Fair Haven and
Red Creek, but also from other eastern Wayne
County communities.

The Authority also operates a series
of small collection systems in
western and eastern Wayne County
which include three pump stations
and approximately six miles of
gravity sewer mains and related
appurtenances. Collected wastewater
from these systems is conveyed to
existing wastewater treatment
facilities owned by other
municipalities and the Authority is
billed on a total flow basis per
thousand gallons treated.

Effective January 1, 2011, the Authority has also contracted
with the Village of Palmyra to
operate the village's water and
wastewater treatment plants and the
related distribution and collection
systems.